John Romero Quotes


Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. Napoleon Bonaparte Government 2,486
To rule is easy, to govern difficult. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government 537
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson Government 472
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. John Locke Government 302
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. Barack Obama Government 276
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens. Arlen Specter Government 268
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. Alexander Hamilton Government 248
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Joseph Goebbels Government 247
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. Albert Einstein Government 245
There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed. Mario Monti Government 241
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Ronald Reagan Government 239
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. Stokely Carmichael Government 229
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound. Lord Justice Topes Government 226
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. Milton Friedman Government 219
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot Government 219
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? Willie Nelson Government 208
The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement. Mario Monti Government 208
The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men. Plato Government 203
Every country has the government it deserves. Joseph de Maistre Government 197
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands. John Steinbeck Government 189
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson Government 188
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. Orson Scott Card Government 183
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. George Washington Government 183
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill Government 183
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson Government 172
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state. Adam Smith Government 157
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. Malcolm X Government 153
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan Government 146
All good government must begin at home. H. R. Haweis Government 142
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. Buenaventura Durruti Government 140
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson Government 139
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln Government 138
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. Alexander Hamilton Government 133
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. Dean Inge Government 131
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. Friedrich August von Hayek Government 128
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth. Benjamin Franklin Government 127
Public instruction should be the first object of government. Napoleon Bonaparte Government 126
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson Government 124
A man without a vote is man without protection. Lyndon B. Johnson Government 124
Government can easily exist without laws but law cannot exist without government. Bertrand Russell Government 124
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. Ronald Reagan Government 123
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. Andrew Jackson Government 123
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. Thomas Jefferson Government 122
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check. Aung San Suu Kyi Government 121
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. Marquis de Lafayette Government 121
The less government we have the better-the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson Government 119
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? Saint Augustine Government 118
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. Milton Friedman Government 118
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Thomas Jefferson Government 118
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Thomas Jefferson Government 117

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